tigris

See also: Tigris and Tígris

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris, tiger), probably of Iranian origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtiɡriʃ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: tig‧ris
  • Rhymes: -iʃ

Noun

tigris (plural tigrisek)

  1. tiger (Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative tigris tigrisek
accusative tigrist tigriseket
dative tigrisnek tigriseknek
instrumental tigrissel tigrisekkel
causal-final tigrisért tigrisekért
translative tigrissé tigrisekké
terminative tigrisig tigrisekig
essive-formal tigrisként tigrisekként
essive-modal
inessive tigrisben tigrisekben
superessive tigrisen tigriseken
adessive tigrisnél tigriseknél
illative tigrisbe tigrisekbe
sublative tigrisre tigrisekre
allative tigrishez tigrisekhez
elative tigrisből tigrisekből
delative tigrisről tigrisekről
ablative tigristől tigrisektől
non-attributive
possessive – singular
tigrisé tigriseké
non-attributive
possessive – plural
tigriséi tigrisekéi
Possessive forms of tigris
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tigrisem tigriseim
2nd person sing. tigrised tigriseid
3rd person sing. tigrise tigrisei
1st person plural tigrisünk tigriseink
2nd person plural tigrisetek tigriseitek
3rd person plural tigrisük tigriseik

Derived terms

  • tigrises
Compound words
  • királytigris
  • tigrisbőr
  • tigriscápa
  • tigriskölyök
  • tigrisliliom
  • tigrisugrás
  • tigrisvadász

Descendants

  • Pannonian Rusyn: тиґриш (tigriš)

Further reading

  • tigris in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish tygrys.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈti.ɡris/
  • Rhymes: -iɡris
  • Syllabification: ti‧gris

Noun

tigris m animal (female equivalent tigrisëca)

  1. tiger (Panthera tigris)

References

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris, tiger), probably of Iranian origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

tigris m (genitive tigris or tigridis); third declension

  1. tiger
  2. (poetic) tigress
  3. a tiger skin

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, -in or -em, ablative singular in or imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems).

Descendants

See also

References

  • tigris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tigris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "tigris", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • tigris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • tigris”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]
  • tigris”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tigris”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly